ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not accented or stressed; unemphasized.
Hence (in recent use) unaccentedness.
1598. Florio, Disaccentato, vnaccented, without an accent or due sound.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Accent, Every Bar or Measure is divided into accented and unaccented Parts.
1768. Phil. Trans., LVIII. 256. As neither the Samnites nor the Etruscans had in their alphabet O, they used the simple unaccented V for that element.
1808. L. Murray, Eng. Gram., I. 332. Unaccented syllables are generally short.
1873. H. C. Banister, Music, 12. In all measures, certain beats are accented, and the others unaccented.
1893. Nation (N.Y.), 12 Jan., 33/3. His outline drawings are round and unaccented, and show little sense of structure.